ALS signed “W. T. Sherman,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.5 x 9.25, December 30, 1889. Letter to General Stewart Van Vliet, in part: "I am this moment in receipt of your letter of the 28, and hurry to say that after full consideration I have positively declined the Ball of Jan. 2. Rachel is in Paris…Tomorrow night I come in after an all night affair at the Players Club to see the old year out & new year in on the night of the 3rd I am under pressure of long standing to attend a Reception at the New Lenox Lyceum. So it goes and human flesh & blood cannot stain this racket long. Like old Rip I intend to reform. Turn over a new leaf etc. etc. but if you will come to our house for dinner the 3rd of January you can go to the McAlister Ball from here about midnight. Fashion forbids the opening till the Opera is out…With love to all I am always your classmate & friend." In very good to fine condition, with edge loss affecting several words of text. Accompanied by a mailing envelope addressed to Van Vliet in Sherman's hand, but postmarked April 15, 1889, indicating that the envelope derives from an earlier letter. Sherman and Van Vliet both graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1840.
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